Posted by John on Sep 2, 2017 in Articles, Books, Featured, Fiction, Security, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I testified before the great assembly of our land.
When I describe this event to children today, it really does sound to them like a fairy tale. Once upon a time — a time before the world splintered into a million pieces and America became its current disunited states — this old woman was a young idealist who tried to persuade our mighty Congress that a... read more

Posted by John on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Security | 0 comments
It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to discover that U.S. foreign policy is about as easy to turn around as a warship in dry dock. Despite any number of promises to shake things up — during the election and even in his first days as president — Trump is falling back on some very conventional approaches to the world.
In the last week, for instance, Trump suddenly discovered that firing a... read more

Posted by John on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Security | 0 comments
So, let me see if I’ve got this right.
North Korea has been pushing its ally China to rein in the United States. Pyongyang is worried that Washington is about to launch a preemptive attack, so it has tried to use whatever minimal amount of influence it has to persuade China to use its considerable economic leverage with the United States to get those knuckleheads inside the Beltway to listen to... read more

Posted by John on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Security | 0 comments
The first signs of decline are physical. Citizens don’t grow as tall. They don’t live as long. They start killing each other in large numbers.
Sounds like the post-mortem for a society that disappeared long ago, a conclusion that archaeologists deliver after sifting through bone fragments and pottery shards. Why, the puzzled scholars ask, did such a vibrant society, which produced beautiful... read more

Posted by John on Nov 15, 2016 in Articles, Featured, Security | 0 comments
The nuclear deal with Iran never went before the American people for an up-or-down vote. Nor did it require two-thirds support of the Senate, since it wasn’t technically a treaty. The effort to roll back Iran’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for the elimination of some sanctions faced a much more modest hurdle. It had to attract just enough votes to sustain the president’s threatened... read more

Posted by John on Jun 1, 2016 in Articles, Featured, Security | 0 comments
The targeted assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour last weekend wasn’t just another drone strike.
First of all, it was conducted by the U.S. military, not the CIA, which has orchestrated nearly all drone strikes in Pakistan.
Second, it didn’t take place in Afghanistan or in the so-called lawless tribal region of Pakistan known as the Federally Administered Tribal... read more